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Ultimate Teamers rejoice! FIFA 17 announce ratings refresh

Makers of the video game have announced alterations – both good and bad – to stand-out players from the 2016-17 season

EA Sports have announced the immediate upgrade – and downgrade – of selected players in their popular video game FIFA 17.

Outstanding players across all of the top leagues, including Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, will be rewarded with a stats upgrade across the next 10 days, starting with the Premier League.

Fans of the franchise debate long and hard regarding the original ratings awarded to players upon the game’s annual release, with the latest tweaking of numbers intended to clear up inconsistencies between in-game ratings and players’ real-life performances.

N’Golo Kante, for example, a key cog in Leicester’s Premier League title-winning campaign last season and now doing the same at Chelsea, moves up a full two points overall to match his importance and consistency.

Elsewhere, some players were not so lucky, with Leicester’s porous defending this term seeing captain Wes Morgan and centre-back partner Robert Huth moving down a full two points each.